Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1957, the police passed on to the coxswain a message from the navigation barge moored off Lytham that one of the watchmen had fallen and broken several ribs. As there was no other suitable vessel available, the life- boat Sarah Townsend Porritt put out at 1.15. There was a light westerly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat went alongside the barge, took the injured man on board, and brought him on a stretcher to the fishermen's jetty, where he was landed and taken to hospital. The life-boat reached her moorings at 2.15. Re- wards to the crew, £7 10s..